The other day Karen from Blazing Minds did a post on her Blogging Wire called Why I Enjoy Guest Posting on Blogs. It prompted me to write this long overdue guest post and I’m quite pleased that she offered a guest spot.

If you’re a new blogger just getting started you might not know what plugins are or how where to get started. For starters, read my post called So You Want To Be a Blogger before you dive in. Basically, using a plugin is a way to include additional functionality to your blog. Plugins help you customize your blog and give it some personality. Read the rest of this entry »

There are times when you just have to sort out your Twitter Followers and there are several websites out there that help you with managing twitter followers, you may want to do this for several reasons such as removing twitters that haven’t tweeted for a while or you would like to increase twitter followers in a certain niche, or you simply just want to unfollow twitters who haven’t followed you back.

In the past I have mentioned several site that you can use to work with your twitter, but this time I’m going to mention a handy twitter website that I have started using recently called Buzzom.

You can check your stats for your twitter profile, which will give you a percentage wheel with some useful information, which will hopefully help improve your twittering. Read the rest of this entry »

So there I was browsing through BlogEngage and voting on some interesting article, when I came upon a post with an animation on YouTube titled Pigeon: Impossible, which had me in stitches.

I tried to explain this funny short to a friend of mind and they just didn’t get it, so they asked me if I could put it on my iPod to show them, hmmm, now I wasn’t sure if this was possible, so I searched the net and after several websites claiming they knew how it could be done, but they didn’t seem to work, I found myself on a website with a download of a Free YouTube to iPod Convertor.

Now I did have my doubts on whether this would actually work, but I shouldn’t of!

The program is so easy to use just download it, install it and run it, yes it’s that simple, then all your need to do is copy the URL of the video on YouTube and then add the downloaded and converted video to your iTunes, easy!

The output files are saved in MP4 or 3GP formats into the program’s folder in My Documents, and they retain the name of the source video. They are ready to playback on your iPod, PSP, BlackBerry or mobile phone.

So I’ve tried it and it works, I’ve got the funny video on my iPod and my friend loved it. I probably won’t use this a lot, but it will certainly help on tuition videos that are on YouTube, I mean sometimes it’s just easier to have them on my iPod and watch them when Ive got a bit of spare time and this isn’t always when I’m connected to the net.

Welcome one and all to another Weekly Round up on my blog, as you know each week I bring you a list of blog posts that I have enjoyed reading over the last week as well has some stats. from Blazing Minds, all in a top 5 format….

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It’s time for another Music Monday, so this week I have chosen 7th Sin by my good friends Lisa & KMP

Come join Music Monday and share your songs with us. One simple rule, leave ONLY the actual post link here. You can grab this code at LJL Please note these links are STRICTLY for Music Monday participants only. All others will be deleted without prejudice.

First time I’ve added a Music Monday, anyhow here’s my pick for this Monday morning it’s CLING and the track is called Yours.

Come join Music Monday and share your songs with us. One simple rule, leave ONLY the actual post link here. You can grab this code at LJL Please note these links are STRICTLY for Music Monday participants only. All others will be deleted without prejudice.

Now probably like me your are listed on sites such as MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter etc, but can these site become a bit of an addiction?

Speaking from experience I have become a bit of Twitter addict over the last few months and twitting when I’m out and about and even twitting my posts from this blog.

My uses of Facebook and Myspace has dwindled over the last twelve months or so, but I still use MySpace as a heavy promoting vehicle for the music of Remergence.

But is there such a thing of belonging to too many of the social network sites, I myself have lost count on how many I actually belong to and if it was not for sites such as ping.fm I would probably have problems trying to update them all.

So what do you think? Are you addicted to letting people know that you’ve just had a biscuit on the train home? Or do you think belong to too many social network site? Or maybe you don’t belong to enough?